Assessing Multilingual Children

Author : Sharon Armon-Lotem,Jan de Jong,Natalia Meir
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781783093120

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Assessing Multilingual Children by Sharon Armon-Lotem,Jan de Jong,Natalia Meir Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive set of tools for assessing the linguistic abilities of bilingual children. It aims to disentangle effects of bilingualism from those of Specific Language Impairment (SLI), making use of both models of bilingualism and models of language impairment.

Author : Amanda B. Clinton
Publisher : Amer Psychological Assn
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1433815656

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Assessing Bilingual Children in Context by Amanda B. Clinton Pdf

This book explores the interplay between factors impacting English language learners and considers implications for assessment. It advocates for an integrated assessment of bilingual children that considers multiple influences.

Author : Kate Mahoney
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781783097289

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The Assessment of Emergent Bilinguals by Kate Mahoney Pdf

This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the assessment of students in K-12 schools who use two or more languages in their daily life: English Language Learners (ELLs), or Emergent Bilinguals. The book includes a thorough examination of the policy, history and assessment/measurement issues that educators should understand in order to best advocate for their students. The author presents a decision-making framework called PUMI (Purpose, Use, Method, Instrument) that practitioners can use to better inform assessment decisions for bilingual children. The book will be an invaluable resource in teacher preparation programs, but will also help policy-makers and educators make better decisions to support their students.

Author : Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783090112

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Issues in the Assessment of Bilinguals by Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole Pdf

With growing mass migration across the globe, researchers, practitioners, educators and policy makers are increasingly faced with rising numbers of multilingual children and adults. This volume raises key issues surrounding the evaluation of language abilities and proficiency in multilingual speakers, taking into account the facts concerning the processes of learning, speaking and understanding two languages. Issues in the Assessment of Bilinguals brings together researchers working on bilingual and multilingual children and adults in a variety of multilingual settings: typically developing bilingual children, bilingual and multilingual children and adults found in classrooms, and bilingual children growing up in sociolinguistically fluid bilingual communities – making this an essential volume which raises key issues for anyone assessing performance.

Author : Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781783090143

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Solutions for the Assessment of Bilinguals by Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole Pdf

Solutions for the Assessment of Bilinguals presents innovative solutions for the evaluation of language abilities and proficiency in multilingual speakers – and by extension, the evaluation of their cognitive and academic abilities. This volume brings together researchers working in a variety of bilingual settings to discuss critical matters central to the assessment of bilingual children and adults. The studies include typically developing bilingual children, bilingual children who may be at risk for language impairments, bilingual and multilingual children and adults found in classrooms, and second-language learners in childhood and adulthood. The contributions propose a variety of ways of assessing performance and abilities in the face of the multiple issues that complicate the best interpretation of test performance.

Author : Deryn Hall,Dominic Griffiths,Liz Haslam,Yvonne Wilkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136613180

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Assessing the Needs of Bilingual Pupils by Deryn Hall,Dominic Griffiths,Liz Haslam,Yvonne Wilkin Pdf

Ever since its publication in 1995, this book has offered a means for teachers to consider why some bilingual pupils in their classrooms are not making learning progress or are academically underachieving. This new second edition has been revised and updated in the light of the new government legislation and guidance, most significantly the revised Code of Practice for Special Educational Needs. It continues to look at ways of asking questions about the pupil, of collecting evidence of both learning and language development and of offering support within the classroom. It contains a model and photocopiable proformas for use within schools, which should help to establish clear systems of identification of those bilingual pupils who may have special learning needs and to distinguish these from the need for language support.

Author : Ute Bohnacker,Natalia Gagarina
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260345

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Developing Narrative Comprehension by Ute Bohnacker,Natalia Gagarina Pdf

Comprehension of texts and understanding of questions is a cornerstone of successful human communication. Whilst reading comprehension has been thoroughly investigated in the last decade, there is surprisingly little research on children’s comprehension of picture stories, particularly for bilinguals. This can be partially explained by the lack of cross-culturally robust, cross-linguistic instruments targeting early narration. This book presents an inference-based model of narrative comprehension and a tool that grew out of a large-scale European project on multilingualism. Covering a range of language settings, the book uses the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives to answer the question which narrative comprehension skills (bilingual) children can be expected to master at a certain age, and explores how such comprehension is affected (or not affected) by linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. Linking theory to method, the book will appeal to researchers in linguistics and psychology and graduate students interested in narrative, multilingualism, and language acquisition.

Author : Erin Spinello,Kathryn Kohnert,American Speech-Language-Hearing Association,Rona Alexander,ASHA Professional Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-04
Category : Bilingualism
ISBN : 1580410936

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Language Assessment of Bilingual Children by Erin Spinello,Kathryn Kohnert,American Speech-Language-Hearing Association,Rona Alexander,ASHA Professional Development Pdf

"This program focuses on core principles and procedures that guide valid language assessments with develoing bilingual children."--From guide.

Author : Amanda B. Clinton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Bilingualism in children
ISBN : 1433815664

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Assessing Bilingual Children in Context by Amanda B. Clinton Pdf

Bilingual children are often referred for assessment to determine if educational or mental health supports are necessary for academic, social-emotional, or personal success. This book explores the interplay between factors impacting English language learners and considers implications for assessment. It advocates for an integrated assessment of bilingual children that considers multiple influences, such as previous education, immigration, acculturation, poverty, trauma, and even structural differences between the child's first and second languages. In line with advances in science, several chapters explore the brain-based relationships between personal experience and language learning.

Author : Niklas Miller
Publisher : London : Croom Helm ; San Diego, CA : College Hill Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Bilingualism
ISBN : UCSC:32106006993908

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Bilingualism and Language Disability by Niklas Miller Pdf

Author : Sharynne McLeod,Brian Goldstein
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847695123

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Multilingual Aspects of Speech Sound Disorders in Children by Sharynne McLeod,Brian Goldstein Pdf

Multilingual Aspects of Speech Sound Disorders in Children translates research into clinical practice for speech-language pathologists working with children. The book explores both multilingual and multicultural aspects of children with speech sound disorders. The 30 theoretical and clinical chapters have been written by 44 authors from 16 different countries about 112 languages and dialects.

Author : D. Kimbrough Oller,Rebecca E. Eilers
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853595705

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Language and Literacy in Bilingual Children by D. Kimbrough Oller,Rebecca E. Eilers Pdf

This book sets a high standard for rigor and scientific approach to the study of bilingualism and provides new insights regarding the critical issues of theory and practice, including the interdependence of linguistic knowledge in bilinguals, the role of socioeconomic status, the effect of different language usage patterns in the home, and the role of schooling by single-language immersion as opposed to systematic training in both home and target languages. The rich landscape of outcomes reported in the volume will provide a frame for interpretation and understanding of effects of bilingualism for years to come.

Author : Evangeline Harris Stefanakis
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015045615922

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Whose Judgment Counts? by Evangeline Harris Stefanakis Pdf

"Whose Judgment Counts?" empowers teachers with the skills they need to make informed assessments of bilingual children--examining social, cultural, and language issues first, then focusing on learning.

Author : Sandra Smidt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134072286

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Supporting Multilingual Learners in the Early Years by Sandra Smidt Pdf

Shortlisted for the Nasen Book that supports SEN and Disability Issues Award 2008 Are children who are exposed to more than one language from birth at an advantage or a disadvantage when starting school? Supporting Multilingual Learners in the Early Years examines the theoretical, ideological and practical issues involved in the education of children speaking two or more languages coming to settings which are predominantly monolingual. The book examines current research and thinking about the advantages and disadvantages of being multilingual and tackles complex topics such as: what being multilingual implies in terms of prior learning and why this matters in education the importance of respect for diversity and encouraging children to be proud of their language and culture practical ways to help young children acquire English ways of working with parents who themselves have little or no English the differences and difficulties involved in a child learning an additional language so early on in their lives strategies for exploring the learning of multilingual learners and a review of the resources and activities that could help. Sandra Smidt views multilingualism as a cognitive advantage and shows how Early Years practitioners can use interactive styles of learning to focus on the benefit that the many cultures and languages in the classroom can bring to children’s learning and development. Written in a highly accessible tone, this book offers practitioners a mix of practical case studies and examples in which theory is embedded and its importance explained. Students of early childhood education will also appreciate the author's carefully structured approach to the topic, as she includes summary boxes, glossaries and points for reflection in each chapter.

Author : Sharon Armon-Lotem,Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258915

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Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings by Sharon Armon-Lotem,Kleanthes K. Grohmann Pdf

COST Action IS0804 “Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment” aimed to profile bilingual specific language impairment (biSLI) by establishing a network for research on the linguistic and cognitive abilities of bilingual children with SLI across different migrant communities. A battery of tools for Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings (LITMUS) was designed within the Action to achieve these aims, including the Parental Bilingual Questionnaire, the Sentence Repetition Task, the Crosslinguistic Lexical Tasks, the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives, and two nonword repetition tasks that are not language-specific. The chapters in this volume present research on one or more of the LITMUS tasks in bilingual children with typical language development and on use of the LITMUS testing battery for identifying possible language impairment. The work presented here will be of interest for researchers and clinicians alike, and have profound impact in our understanding of bilingual language development and impairment.